Metacognitive sensitivity is domain-specific in early childhood: number-domain and emotion-domain measures are uncorrelated¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (3 entries) · associational r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Children's phi, gamma, and A'ROC values were not correlated between the number and emotion domains. → Vo 2014 q3 i? A canonical correlation analysis found no significant linear relationship between number-related and emotion-related metacognition measures. → Vo 2014 (2) q3 i? PCA components clustered metacognitive measures by domain rather than by measurement type. → Vo 2014 (3)

Evidence¶

Vo 2014¶

Vo, V. Y., Li, R., Kornell, N., Pouget, A., & Cantlon, J. F. (2014). Young Children Bet On Their Numerical Skills: Metacognition in the Numerical Domain. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614538458

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Cross-domain correlations were near zero for all three measures (phi r = −.12, p = .91; gamma r = .08, p = .64; A'ROC r = .04, p = .84; Table 3), indicating metacognitive sensitivity is not uniform across judgment types.

"Children's phi values were not correlated between the two domains, suggesting that children's metacognitive sensitivity is not uniform across different judgment types (Table 3)."

Vo 2014 (2)¶

Vo, V. Y., Li, R., Kornell, N., Pouget, A., & Cantlon, J. F. (2014). Young Children Bet On Their Numerical Skills: Metacognition in the Numerical Domain. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614538458

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A canonical correlation analysis across the six metacognition measures (three per domain) found no significant linear relationship between domains, supporting the conclusion that metacognitive ability is domain-specific in children.

"The full CCA model indicated that there is no significant linear relationship between the two domains (Wilks Λ = .759, R2 c = .431, F(9, 63.43) = 0.846, p = .58)."

Vo 2014 (3)¶

Vo, V. Y., Li, R., Kornell, N., Pouget, A., & Cantlon, J. F. (2014). Young Children Bet On Their Numerical Skills: Metacognition in the Numerical Domain. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614538458

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A PCA on phi, gamma, and A'ROC from both domains produced two components (49% and 46% variance explained) that segregated by content domain rather than measurement type, consistent with domain-specific metacognition.

"All number measures loaded highly on component 1, whereas all emotion measures loaded highly on component 2 (Table 4)."

Discussion¶

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